Musik.
Band och musikprojekt, 1988 → idag: Arbetarorkestern, Howler Monkey Gods, Moveable med flera.
Arbetarorkestern
Collective world-music ensemble from Stockholm — West African grooves, southern African choral traditions, roots reggae, and Swedish folk song on one stage.
Arbetarorkestern — “the workers’ orchestra” — is a collective world-music ensemble based in Stockholm. The name carries the weight of the Swedish prog and working-class ballad tradition, but the music reaches far beyond any one country: West African grooves, southern African call-and-response, Ugandan songs of exile, roots reggae, Latin American nueva trova, and Swedish poets like Cornelis Vreeswijk and Mikael Wiehe all share the stage.
Highlights so far: a memorial concert for the Namibian musician Tauna Niingungo at the Museum of Ethnography (September 2025), and Tidafestivalen in June 2026. The repertoire spans thirteen languages.
Howler Monkey Gods
Diesel-powered melodic metal from Stockholm — grunge, black metal, and prog, somewhere between Alice in Chains, Mastodon, and Queens of the Stone Age.
Howler Monkey Gods were a Stockholm-based four-piece forged in the dark Swedish winter of 2009. Their sound — diesel-powered melodic metal — drew from grunge, black metal, emo, and prog, landing somewhere between Alice in Chains, Mastodon, and Queens of the Stone Age.
The band was Tompa (vocals, guitar), Mogge (guitar, keys), Robban (drums — founding member of pioneering Swedish black metal band Mefisto), and Klokie (bass). Between 2009 and 2014, HMG self-recorded and released four EPs from their Stockholm studio — including Roadside Sleeping, featuring a duet with Swedish singer and actress Regina Lund. All four are on Bandcamp.
Moveable
Loud rock trio, Boston → New York City — abrasive yet melodic, filed somewhere near the Fall, Gang of Four, Fugazi, Slint, and the Jesus Lizard.
moveable began during the long winter of 1994 with five 19-year-old boys in Boston and rose from the ashes as a trio in New York City by 1998: Kyle Richards (bass, vocals), Bill French (drums), and Klokie (guitar). Once described as “the soundtrack for the sexually frustrated,” then more accurately as “dynamic, between really loud and sort of loud.”
Releases: a 7” on Front Yard Records (1997), a split single with post-rock neighbors Cathode (Polterchrist Records), a third single on Sandbox Records (1999), and a full-length recorded with Rick Pelletier at the Parlour in Pawtucket, RI. Played the Continental, Coney Island High, Luna Lounge, Brownies, the Middle East, the Rat, and most respectable (and otherwise) rooms in the Northeast. Bandcamp reissue in progress.